Posted on 07/21/2026 11:05:43 AM PDT by DFG
Google’s parent company Alphabet has reportedly more than quadrupled its office space in Miami this year after co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin bought mansions in the area, fleeing California ahead of a proposed tax on billionaires.
This spring, Alphabet signed a lease to expand its Miami space to about 45,000 square feet, adding to its current 10,000 square-foot satellite office in the city’s financial district, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
Page and Brin are the second- and third-richest people in the world, with net worths of $257 billion and $237 billion, respectively, according to Forbes.
Their recent real estate purchases in South Florida helped drive Alphabet’s decision to expand, Bloomberg reported.
Over the past year, Page bought $188 million in Miami real estate, including a $101.5 million estate in the upscale Coconut Grove neighborhood.
Brin snapped up a Miami Beach waterfront home for a cool $51 million.
The billionaire duo represent some of the highest-profile exits from the Golden State ahead of the November midterms, when voters will weigh in on a ballot measure that could impose a one-time 5% tax on those worth over $1 billion.
Page and Brin, who built their fortunes in California after creating Google in 1998 as two Stanford University grad students, started cutting ties with the state earlier this year – terminating or moving several limited liability companies.
Brin and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt have joined forces with some of Silicon Valley’s biggest moguls to create a pro-business organization that is poised to lobby against the billionaire tax.
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Great, these are the rich arses who voted their “feelings” and could not wait to be in the “cool crowd” by voting for, no, donating HEAVILY to the Newsom’s of the world. Now they are bringing their show to a state that did not vote for the Newsom’s of the world and played it right.
It’s like a disease that kills one host and moves to another. One could hope that these arses have learned their lesson, but I would not hold my breath.
quadrupling a 10,000 square-foot satellite office is like spitting in the ocean ... definitely not worth a headline ...
Next, Governor Greaseball will want to prosecute them for evading taxation.
Hopefully, they were just trying to buy him off.
Many corporations donate to BOTH sides of the political spectrum.
However, I would think IF you were based in California, you would have to donate to the Dems. They are the only game in town. You don’t want to be a target.
For as the Great Governor William J. Le Petomanet once said:
“Hey, I didn’t get a HARRUMPH from that guy.
You better watch your A$$ buddy”
Not only evading taxation, but plotting to put blacks back in chains, throw grandmothers off cliffs, cut back on EBT for all poor people and even misgendering LGBTQs!
Awesome, make Florida California!!
Feed them to the alligators.
(Google’s parent company Alphabet)
I pay my money to the welfare line
I see you standing in it every time
😉😉😉
They wouldn’t have you in the
MAF-I-A!!!
They make up laws as needed, like they did with election law in 2020.
They “make up laws” for Florida from California?
When was that?
Now These locusts will vote the same way in Florida.
Not necessarily. Experience matters, even for billionaires, and the experience of having to skedaddle from California for Florida will make a difference.
Most of these ultra wealthy people are that way because instead of working hard and focusing on something not specifically directed to making a fortune (e.g an engineer designing a new aircraft or a missile defense system, a physicist working on quantum mechanics and how it might be applied to quantum computing, a physician scientist trying to figure out how to hijack the immune system to treat cancer without causing widespread autoimmune side-effects, a hard-working father who spends 60 hours a week trying to earn a life that is best for his family, etc.), they are focused on how they can make money off of other peoples money and other people's efforts.
Before people push back about ‘free market capitalism’, which I fervently believe in, this isn't about building a better mouse-trap. This is about sitting back, waiting for the lion to make a kill, and then swooping in to steal dinner - like other vultures.
Then, as further insult, they use their gains to support those who will further degrade the ability of motivated, ambitious, creative, hard-working Americans to benefit from the fruits of their labor - the very definition of being in the land of opportunity.
I'm sorry, but I have no respect for liberals who are now fleeing a state in which they will have to pay a price for their liberalism. They aren't capitalists. They are parasites.
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